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if you want high quality video and good stills; the 7D. Or get a used 5D, full frame, very sharp and very very good color. 5D mark II only wins on the resolution department and video (I've recently sold the 5D and got 5D mark II). The 5DI is still amazing at base iso, it has a weak antialias filter so it is the sharpest 12mp camera out there still. I have weak spot for it and I sold it with pain in my heart :-P.
Don't forget the lenses, fast primes don't have to be expensive:
50mm 1.8/1.4, 85 1.8 are very good for the money. No reason to get a good camera if you stick cheap zooms on it I think.Nikon is also very good, just lagging behind on the video front (not full HD, not full manual, 5min clip length limit). Still image wise, nikon is great.
For me video is relevant, I use it for assignments:
http://www.directiondesign.nl/bl…Both tv producers and add agencies are really really impressed witht the 5D2's video quality. And 24/25/30p is coming up in a firmware update. 7D is cheaper and even has slow motion video, but I am never going back to crop sensors :-)